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Dana X. Bible 
Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball Biographical details Born October 8, 1891 Place of birth Jefferson City, Tennessee Died January 19, 1980 (aged 88) Place of death Austin, Texas Playing career 1910s Carson–Newman Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football
1913–1915
1916
1917
1919–1928
1929–1936
1937–1946
Basketball
1920–1927
Baseball
1920–1921
Mississippi College
LSU
Texas A&M
Texas A&M
Nebraska
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas A&MHead coaching record Overall 198–72–23 (football)
90–47 (basketball)
29–10–1 (baseball)Bowls 3–0–1 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Championships 8 SWC (1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1942–1943, 1945)
6 Big Six (1929, 1931–1933, 1935–1936)Awards Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1954) College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1951 (profile)Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College (1913–1915), Louisiana State University (1916), Texas A&M University (1917, 1919–1928), the University of Nebraska (1929–1936), and the University of Texas (1937–1946). In his college football coaching career, Bible compiled a record of 198–72–23. His teams had winning records in 30 of the 33 seasons he coached. Bible twice won 10 games in a season. Bible also coached baseball and basketball at Texas A&M. During his hiatus from Texas A&M in 1918, Bible served as pilot in World War I.
Bible's 1919 Texas A&M Aggies football team, which was undefeated, untied, and outscored its opposition 275–0, was retroactively named a national champion by the Billingsley Report and the National Championship Foundation. In ten seasons at Texas, Bible brought the Longhorns football program to national prominence, winning three Southwest Conference championships, making three appearances at the Cotton Bowl Classic (two victorious), and placing in the final AP Poll rankings five times. While at Texas, University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy contacted Bible to organize a clinic on the T formation. Along with Frank Leahy of Notre Dame, they helped create the T formation revolution. Bible was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1960. His book, Championship Football, was published in 1947.
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Education
Bible graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908. He received a B.A. degree from Carson–Newman College in 1912. He played football while in college. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Iota chapter.
Family
Bible was the son of Jonathan David Bible (October 9, 1863 in Cocke County, Tennessee – November 23, 1942) and Cleopatra I. Willis (October 19, 1870 – January 25, 1954). The couple married on June 20, 1889. Jonathan was a college professor at Carson–Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee who could quote biblical scripture and was a Greek and Latin scholar. Dana married Rowena Rhodes on December 19, 1923. They had two children, William and Barbara. Rowena died in 1942. Dana later married Agnes Stacy in 1944 and they were divorced in 1950. He married Dorothy Gilstrap on February 2, 1952.
Head coaching record
Football
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs AP# Mississippi College Choctaws (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1913–1915) 1913 Mississippi College 6–3 1914 Mississippi College 4–3–1 1915 Mississippi College 3–3–1 Mississippi College: 12–7–2 LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1916) 1916 LSU 1–0–2* 1–0–1* LSU: 1–0–2 1–0–1 *First 7 games coached were by E. T. McDonald and Irving Pray. Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1917) 1917 Texas A&M 8–0 2–0 1st Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1919–1928) 1919 Texas A&M 10–0 4–0 1st 1920 Texas A&M 6–1–1 5–1 3rd 1921 Texas A&M 6–1–2 3–0–2 1st W Dixie Classic 1922 Texas A&M 5–4 2–2 T–3rd 1923 Texas A&M 5–3–1 0–3–1 8th 1924 Texas A&M 7–2–1 2–2–1 4th 1925 Texas A&M 7–1–1 4–1–0 1st 1926 Texas A&M 5–3–1 1–3–1 5th 1927 Texas A&M 8–0–1 4–0–1 1st 1928 Texas A&M 5–4–1 1–3–1 5th Texas A&M: 72–19–9 26–15–7 Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Six Conference) (1929–1936) 1929 Nebraska 4–1–3 3–0–2 1st 1930 Nebraska 4–3–2 2–2–1 4th 1931 Nebraska 8–2 5–0 1st 1932 Nebraska 7–1–1 5–0 1st 1933 Nebraska 8–1 5–0 1st 1934 Nebraska 6–3 4–1 2nd 1935 Nebraska 6–2–1 4–0–1 1st 1936 Nebraska 7–2 5–0 1st 9 Nebraska: 50–15–7 33–3–4 Texas Longhorns (Southwest Conference) (1937–1946) 1937 Texas 2–6–1 1–5 7th 1938 Texas 1–8 1–5 T–6th 1939 Texas 5–4 3–3 4th 1940 Texas 8–2 4–2 T–3rd 1941 Texas 8–1–1 4–1–1 2nd 4 1942 Texas 9–2 5–1 1st W Cotton 11 1943 Texas 7–1–1 5–0 1st T Cotton 14 1944 Texas 5–4 3–2 2nd 1945 Texas 10–1 5–1 1st W Cotton 10 1946 Texas 8–2 4–2 15 Texas: 63–31–3 35–22–1 Total: 198–72–23 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title #Rankings from final AP Poll. References
External links
- Dana X. Bible at the College Football Data Warehouse
- Dana X. Bible at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Mississippi College Choctaws head football coaches No coach (1907–1909) • Dale E. Chadwick (1910–1912) • Dana X. Bible (1913–1915) • Dudy Noble (1916) • No team (1917–1918) • Frank G. Anderson (1919) • Stanley Robinson (1920–1923) • John M. King (1924) • George Bohler (1925–1927) • Stanley Robinson (1928–1953) • Joe Murphy (1954–1958) • Hartwell McPhail (1959–1971) • John M. Williams (1972–1990) • Terry L. McMillan (1991–1999) • Johnny Mills (2000–2004) • Norman Joseph (2005– )
LSU Tigers head football coaches Charles E. Coates (1893) • Albert Simmons (1894–1895) • Allen Jeardeau (1896–1897) • Edmond Chavanne (1898) • John P. Gregg (1899) • Edmond Chavanne (1900) • W. S. Boreland (1901–1903) • Dan A. Killian (1904–1906) • Edgar Wingard (1907–1908) • Joe Pritchard (1909) • John W. Mayhew (1909–1910) • James Dwyer (1911–1913) • E. T. McDonald (1914–1916) • Irving Pray (1916) • Dana X. Bible (1916) • Wayne Sutton (1917) • No team (1918) • Irving Pray (1919) • Branch Bocock (1920–1921) • Irving Pray (1922) • Mike Donahue (1923–1927) • Russ Cohen (1928–1931) • Biff Jones (1932–1934) • Bernie Moore (1935–1947) • Gaynell Tinsley (1948–1954) • Paul Dietzel (1955–1961) • Charles McClendon (1962–1979) • Jerry Stovall (1980–1983) • Bill Arnsparger (1984–1986) • Mike Archer (1987–1990) • Curley Hallman (1991–1994) • Gerry DiNardo (1995–1999) • Hal Hunter # (1999) • Nick Saban (2000–2004) • Les Miles (2005– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball head coaches F. D. Steger (1912–1915) • D. V. Graves (1915–1916) • W. H. H. Morris (1916–1917) • William L. Driver (1917–1920) • Dana X. Bible (1920–1927) • C. F. Bassett (1927–1929) • John B. Reid (1929–1935) • Herbert McQuillan (1935–1941) • Marty Karow (1941–1942) • Manning Smith (1942–1945) • Marty Karow (1945–1950) • John Floyd (1950–1955) • Ken Loeffler (1955–1957) • Bob Rogers (1957–1963) • Shelby Metcalf (1963–1990) • John Thornton (1990) • Kermit Davis (1990–1991) • Tony Barone (1991–1998) • Melvin Watkins (1998–2004) • Billy Gillispie (2004–2007) • Mark Turgeon (2007–2011) • Billy Kennedy (2011–)
Texas A&M Aggies head baseball coaches Wirt Spencer (1904–1908) • Charley Moran (1909–1914) • C. C. Lucid (1915) • D. V. Graves (1916–1919) • Dana X. Bible (1920–1921) • Gene Cochrehan (1922) • H. H. House (1923–1924) • Claude Rothgeb (1925–1927) • R. D. Countryman (1928–1929) • Grady Higginbotham (1930–1935) • Jules V. Sikes (1936–1937) • Marty Karow (1938–1941) • Lil Dimmit (1942) • Homer H. Norton (1943–1944) • A. E. Jones (1945) • Lil Dimmit (1946–1947) • Marty Karow (1948–1950) • Beau Bell (1951–1958) • Tom Chandler (1959–1984) • Mark Johnson (1985–2005) • Rob Childress (2006– )
Texas A&M Aggies head football coaches F. D. Perkins (1894) • No team (1895) • A. M. Soule & H. W. South (1896) • C. W. Taylor (1897) • H. W. Williams (1898) • W. A. Murray (1899–1901) • J. E. Platt (1902–1904) • Walter E. Bachman (1905–1906) • L. L. Larson (1907) • N. A. Merriam (1908–1909) • Charley Moran (1909–1914) • E. H. Harlan (1915–1916) • Dana X. Bible (1917) • D. V. Graves (1918) • Dana X. Bible (1919–1928) • Matty Bell (1929–1933) • Homer H. Norton (1934–1947) • Harry Stiteler (1948–1950) • Raymond George (1951–1953) • Bear Bryant (1954–1957) • Jim Myers (1958–1961) • Hank Foldberg (1962–1964) • Gene Stallings (1965–1971) • Emory Bellard (1972–1978) • Tom Wilson (1978–1981) • Jackie Sherrill (1982–1988) • R. C. Slocum (1989–2002) • Dennis Franchione (2003–2007) • Gary Darnell # (2007) • Mike Sherman (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches Langdon Frothingham (1890) • T. U. Lyman (1891) • J. S. Williams (1892) • Frank Crawford (1893–1894) • Charles Thomas (1895) • Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897) • Fielding H. Yost (1898) • Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899) • Walter C. Booth (1900–1905) • Amos Foster (1906) • King Cole (1907–1910) • Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915) • E. J. Stewart (1916–1917) • William G. Kline (1918) • Henry Schulte (1919–1920) • Fred Dawson (1921–1924) • Ernest Bearg (1925–1928) • Dana X. Bible (1929–1936) • Biff Jones (1937–1941) • Glenn Presnell (1942) • Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944) • George Clark (1945) • Bernie Masterson (1946–1947) • George Clark (1948) • Bill Glassford (1949–1955) • Pete Elliott (1956) • Bill Jennings (1957–1961) • Bob Devaney (1962–1972) • Tom Osborne (1973–1997) • Frank Solich (1998–2003) • Bo Pelini # (2003) • Bill Callahan (2004–2007) • Bo Pelini (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.Texas Longhorns head football coaches No coach (1893) • Reginald DeMerritt Wentworth (1894) • Frank Crawford (1895) • Harry Orman Robinson (1896) • Walter F. Kelly (1897) • David Farragut Edwards (1898) • Maurice Gordon Clarke (1899) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1900–1901) • J. B. Hart (1902) • Ralph Hutchinson (1903–1905) • H. R. Schenker (1906) • W. E. Metzenthin (1907–1908) • Dexter W. Draper (1909) • Billy Wasmund (1910–1911) • Dave Allerdice (1912–1915) • Eugene Van Gent (1916) • William Juneau (1917–1919) • Berry Whitaker (1920–1922) • E. J. Stewart (1923–1926) • Clyde Littlefield (1927–1933) • Jack Chevigny (1934–1936) • Dana X. Bible (1937–1946) • Blair Cherry (1947–1950) • Ed Price (1951–1956) • Darrell Royal (1957–1976) • Fred Akers (1977–1986) • David McWilliams (1987–1991) • John Mackovic (1992–1997) • Mack Brown (1998– )
Amos Alonzo Stagg Award winners 1940: Donald Herring, Jr. | 1941: Butch Cowell† | 1942–1945 No award given | 1946: Grantland Rice | 1947: William Alexander | 1948: Gil Dobie, Glenn Scobey Warner & Robert Zuppke | 1949: Dick Harlow | 1950 No award given | 1951: Tuss McLaughry | 1952: Bo McMillin | 1953: Lou Little | 1954: Dana X. Bible | 1955: Joseph J. Tomlin | 1956 No award given | 1957: Robert Neyland | 1958: Bernie Bierman | 1959: John Wilce | 1960: Harvey Harman | 1961: Ray Eliot | 1962: Elton Wieman | 1963: Andrew Kerr | 1964: Don Faurot | 1965: Harry Stuhldreher | 1966: Bernie Moore | 1967: Jess Neely | 1968: Abe Martin | 1969: Rip Engle | 1970: Pappy Waldorf | 1971: William D. Murray | 1972: Jack Curtice | 1973: Lloyd Jordan | 1974: Jake Gaither | 1975: Gerald B. Zornow | 1976 No award given | 1977: Ben Schwartzwalder | 1978: Tom Hamilton | 1979: Fritz Crisler | 1980 No award given | 1981: Fred Russell | 1982: Eddie Robinson | 1983: Bear Bryant | 1984: Bud Wilkinson | 1985: Duffy Daugherty | 1986: Woody Hayes | 1987: Field Scovell | 1988: Herb McCracken | 1989: David M. Nelson | 1990: Len Casanova | 1991: Bob Blackman | 1992: Charles McClendon | 1993: Keith Jackson | 1994: Bob Devaney | 1995: John Merritt† | 1996: Chuck Neinas | 1997: Ara Parseghian | 1998: Bob Reade | 1999: Bo Schembechler | 2000: Tom Osborne | 2001: Vince Dooley | 2002: Joe Paterno | 2003: LaVell Edwards | 2004: Ron Schipper | 2005: Hayden Fry | 2006: Grant Teaff | 2007: Bill Curry | 2008: Bill Walsh† | 2009: John Gagliardi | 2010: Darrell Royal| 2011: Bobby Bowden
† Denotes posthumous selectionCategories:- 1891 births
- 1980 deaths
- American military personnel of World War I
- Carson–Newman Eagles football players
- LSU Tigers football coaches
- Mississippi College Choctaws football coaches
- Nebraska Cornhuskers football coaches
- People from Cocke County, Tennessee
- Texas A&M Aggies baseball coaches
- Texas A&M Aggies football coaches
- Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball coaches
- Texas Longhorns football coaches
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